metaplasm

English

Etymology

From Latin metaplasmus from Ancient Greek μεταπλασμός (metaplasmós).

Noun

metaplasm (plural metaplasms)

1. (linguistics) Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.
2. (biology) A small particle (often nutrient) within a cell.

Hyponyms

• (linguistics):
  • prothesis, epenthesis, paragoge, diaeresis, diastole
  • aphaeresis, syncope, apocope, ellipsis, ecthlipsis, synaloepha, synizesis, synaeresis, systole
  • metathesis
  • antisthecon

Translations

linguistics: alteration of a word’s letters or sounds

• French: métaplasme (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: μεταπλασμός m (metaplasmós)

• Latin: metaplasmus
• Occitan: metaplasme m
• Spanish: metaplasmo (es) m

biology: small particle within a cell

• Finnish: metaplasma
• Tagalog: lakdawkaphay

See also

• (linguistics): clipping

Further reading

• metaplasm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia